I have a couple of answers:
who deletes/demods/disables accounts?
Posts don’t ever get deleted anymore. If the author decides they made a mistake posting in the first place ( happens occasionally) they can ask me to remove the post and I will store it where it is not visible (in case the author changes his mind again, but that hasn’t happened).
Disabling accounts is only done per the new posting rules. That means warnings, and if more transgressions happen, vacations. Disabling an account is the last resort and has to be approved by both mods and admin.
Demodding – hasn’t happened since the restructure. Mods ask to be demodded. If there is a serious problem, it would likely be handled like any other member account, via the posting rules.
Personally, as mod I don’t tolerate personal attacks. It’s a professional forum, and we can attack opinions of others all we like, but not the other person him/herself. When that happens, one word leads to another and we just have a flame that has nothing to do with the actual issue anymore. I’d like to see us all more professional than that. If people want to duke it out they can do so in the freeforall section, or better yet, away from the message board.
Nice post, Alex, and I think this
deleting / disabling accounts of people who drop out of sponsored programs = not so good from affiliates standpoints
is a very interesting point. I assume you are talking about the programs here. Maybe CAP can stay a point of contact in such cases… there should be a way to handle this… like letting non-member programs reply to complaints…